Angry Daddy
There are characters and behaviors African parents exhibit sometimes that I feel like other parent around the world don't.
I was in my room earlier today, mentally getting myself ready to go vote (my country's presidential election is today) when I randomly remembered how my dad wouldn't talk to us for days (sometimes even weeks), just because he was upset with us, even though we all live in the same house and see ourselves everyday.
My dad had developed the "no talking to you" habit after he made a promise to himself to only punish us when we do something wrong and not flog us anymore like he usually does in the past.
But you see, that wasn't the weird part or character I was talking about earlier. The weird thing is that whenever my dad is upset with you and chooses to ignore you like you don't exist, he expects you to go beg and ask for forgiveness from him, which to me, I feel it's normal. But you see, anytime we go to my dad's room to ask for forgiveness, the man always chases us out of his room with a cane or maybe his fist (he would threaten to beat the shit out of us if we don't leave his room).
But then again, if we decide not to go beg him, maybe hoping that he would just let whatever it is we did, slide, he still will come two, three days later, telling everyone in the family how we refused to come ask him for forgiveness, maybe because we now feel we're way too big to apologize to him.
So sometimes we find ourselves in a bit of a situation because we don't know what to do. We know that if we go apologize, he will chase us away and if we don't go apologize, he still will find fault in that. So now what everyone in the family does whenever dad is upset, is that we all go to apologize and when he asks us to leave, we will but it won't be for long. We will be back two hours later to continue from where we had stopped, even though we know we still will get the same result.
I have a question though, is this how it is everywhere else, is this how all of the dads out there behave, or it's just mine?
brother I know what you mean. we must remember that every day that passes our parents get older and become more spoiled hahahahahah. what are we going to do? it's the law of life. mine gets angry until I call him several times he doesn't get rid of this heaviness jajajajajaja.
Ha ha, it's funny and sweet at the same time, as oppose, my dad hardly gets angry to that extent of nit talking to us, instead that's when he disturbs us the most, you will hear him call your name hundred times even when he has no errands for you 😂😂, we love them like that.
Lol.. My dad wouldn't even bother you.. He will do every thing himself which is really cool for us but then, we know it's not right, so we go beg him regardless.